Food Security and Sustainable Agricultural Development in Nigeria Through Healthy and Environmental Best Practices of Farmers
| dc.contributor.author | Eunice Oluchi INNOCENT-ENE | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-08-29T13:06:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-08-29T13:06:53Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper discussed sustainable food security in Nigeria through farmers' involvement in healthy and environmental best practices. Farmers' health directly correlates with productivity which results in food sufficiency and security. Engaging in healthy and environmental best practices improves health and supports farmers to stay healthy, enhances their attendance as well as productivity at work. This paper noted that one of the factors that cause unproductivity at work is ill-health; ill-health can result in presenteeism (workers who are physically present at work but not performing at their best); and absenteeism (workers not being present at work at all). The paper further argued that farmers' ill-health if not properly managed can result to food insecurity. To avert the incidence of food insecurity, farmers need to produce sufficient food and affordable for use by the people. The paper reasoned that sustainability can be enhanced by healthy and environmental practices of farmers in the course of food production. These practices are activities and lifestyles that can reduce ill-health and improve health of farmers; and activities that can reduce negative effects of agriculture on the environment. Due to farmers' poor personal health profiles, and ignorance to seek proper medical attention when the need arises, the paper concluded that that there is need to bring health literacy and environmental hygiene to the door steps of farmers; and advocated for health education through physical, environmental, reproductive as well as sexual health. The paper also suggested alternating bio-fertilizers and pesticides with chemical-fertilizer and pesticides to avoid over-use of chemicals on the farm. And also crop rotation, organic farming, conservative agriculture to alternate the highly chemicalized system of agriculture in practice at the moment. | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 3027-0308 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.lcu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/759 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Lead City University Ibadan | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Lead City University Postgraduate Multidisciplinary Serial | |
| dc.subject | Food Security | |
| dc.subject | SustainableAgricultural Development | |
| dc.subject | Farmers | |
| dc.subject | Healthy and Environmental Best Practices | |
| dc.title | Food Security and Sustainable Agricultural Development in Nigeria Through Healthy and Environmental Best Practices of Farmers | |
| dc.type | Article |